There are some conversations that can only take place on the borders of ourselves; in contact with the other. The exhibition, Hungry Dungeon Friends, circulates around these borders and interiorities. They are viscous, unformed, multiple and representative of our hybrid nature.
Through the hybrid format of the PILOTENKUECHE International Art Program, there are possibilities to realign ones practice and be exposed to new environments, like the dungeonesque basement at KKW which offers a unique stimuli. Exchanges can be marked by a need, a hunger communicated through the affective fields of our bodies. The body-organism is linked to the world through a network of primal signifiers, our bodies’ raw data.
Like in the Deffractionist writings of philosopher, Karen Barad, in this project the pollination between practices and processes of the artists seeks to frame how “we cut together apart.” The work explores intimacies and edges of collapse, dialogues about method, stages of unconscious and conscious action. How and what inhabits these points of exchange? PILOTENKUECHE offers a space to challenge temporal and spatial constraints.
In an enhanced awareness of these possible exchanges we question and reconfigure understandings. Hungry Dungeon Friends seeks to look into our entanglements in a myriad of ways. Conceived in an underworld of currents, it is a form and place where thinking intervenes in the more than human worlds.
Theorist Donna Haraway’s work highlights the figuration of these broken boundaries and imploded worlds, where knowledge and ontology dissolve. As a species we need to collectively reimagine new forms of empathy and understanding. In turn, this allows the developing of methods of care and extends the notion of what relating is, in order to confront humanity’s 21st century human exceptionalism.
written by Curator in Residence Colette Patterson
Hungry Dungeon Friends
vernissage:
Saturday 17 August
7PM-10PM
Live performances by
sound artist Isaac Magner with film maker Agathe Barreand performance artists Antonia Wetzel, Tom Alexander Austin and Simon Schäfer.
events:
Saturday 24 August
Curatorial Tour by Colette Patterson
Live performance by
Tom Alexander Austin
open:
Sunday 18 August – Sunday 1 September
10AM-6PM Tue-Sun
location:
Kunstkraftwerk
Saalfelder Str.
PK RD40
International residents
Adam Tuch (sound, digital art, installation/US)
Agathe Barre (film/FR)
Antonia Wetzel (performance, painting/DE)
Ariel Taylor (painting/US)
Clément Bedel (painting/FR)
Christopher Sperandio (comics/US)
Darien Crossley (performance, painting/US)
Helene Planquelle (painting, drawing/FR)
Isaac Magner (sound design, video/UK)
Michella Perera (sculpture/UK)
Tom Alexander Austin (performance/UK)
Vernon O´Meally (painting/US)
Zara June Williams (painting/AU)
Zheng Wenxin (painting/CH)
Local Participants
Matthias Geisler (painting, printmaking/DE)
Simon Schäfer (sculpture, film, sound, installation, digital/DE)
Curator
Colette Patterson (UK)
Assistants
Fiona Irene Graf (DE/UK)
Huai-ya Lin (TW)
Silvia Zandomeneghi (IT)
milkafterfish (instagram)
Stanley Louis (HA/FR)
iam_stanlouis (instagram)–